Notes for Joseph Isaac Culbertson. Joseph left
Missouri about the year 1860 travelling to Burnet County. He worked
for his brother for a time on a sheep ranch, then purchased and owned
and operated a cotton gin. He later moved to Concho county, Texas,
and acquired and operated a horse ranch. He later sold the horse
ranch and went back to Burnet County, farming there for several years
before moving to Cottle County Texas about 1890, where he homesteaded
and ran cattle. He left the farm with his family about 1893 and
moved to Paducah, Texas, where he bought and operated the Culbertson
Hotel. He also owned and operated two farms. Later, after selling
the hotel, he moved to one of the farms and continued to operate them
until after 1902. He then sold his farms near Paducah and moved to
Moore County with his family where he purchased a ranch, which he
operated for two or three years. He was killed in Dalhart, Texas, in
November 1905, when the loft of a building fell on him.

Joseph Isaac Culbertson was a Mason. He was initiated as an
entered apprentice July 27, 1874, passed through the Degree of
Fellowcraft November 23, 1875, and raised to the Sublime Degree of
Master Mason February 5, 1876. He was fifty-seven years, eight
months and six days old at the time of his death on the 7th day of
November. --Told to King Fike by W. O. Culbertson, Jan 1959.